Archive for the ‘Platforms: J2me’ Category

Ovi, The Numbers and The Future

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | 2 Comments »

Ovi pushes out 2 million downloads a day. 90% of the Ovi visitors actually find something they want to download and 85% of the traffic is returning traffic. Carrier billing is the most popular billing method.

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Inneractive Secured 25% ad-share on Ovi

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | No Comments »

Mobile advertising agency Inneractive claims to have secured 25% marketshare for in-game advertising on Nokia’s Ovi portal. In fact, 70% of the top 10 apps are powered by Inneractive’s ads.

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RIM Releases BlackBerry 6 Java SDK’s

August 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Following the announcement of the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry 6 OS, RIM has now made available the Java SDK’s to the development community.

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New York Times to Assist Other Newspapers

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

The New York Times has started to offer other newspaper publishers the use of their Press Engine that should shorten development time for iPhone and iPad newspaper apps.

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Flurry Announces its Privacy Initiative

May 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Flurry, one of the leading analytics companies for in-game statistics, has announced its Flurry Privacy Initiative. With this option, consumers can choose to opt-out of the program.

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Antix Game Player Goes Live

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Antix, developer of the multi-screen native gaming platform with the same name, has announced that their platform is finally ready and developers can start to sign up for their GDK.

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HMV and Orange Developing App Store

March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

HMV and Orange have announced their plans to release an app store called HMV Games. The app store will be focused at J2me content and should support 1.000 different phone models.

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Ovi Generates 1.5 Million Downloads/day

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia’s Ovi Store is growing in popularity. While we announced the store reaching an average of 1 million downloads a day only months ago, Ovi is now at an 1.5 million average.

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GDC: BrewMP, Smartphones for the Masses

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: Brew, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Though Brew has always been a strong platform in the US, the platform never reached a substantial marketshare in markets like Europe and Asia. With the new BrewMP platform, that might change.

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HandyGames Not Leaving J2me

March 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

In an interview with Jon Jordan, HandyGames CEO Christopher Kassulke announced that the company will not abandon the classic J2me market, a sharp contrast to many other voices in the market.